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2008-08-15 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russian Forces Capture Us-Made Small Arms In Senaki Military Base

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Posted by Sherry 2008-08-15 12:15|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 What the hell is a M-40 machine gun? Are they talking about a sniper rifle?

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2008-08-15 12:57|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2008-08-15 12:57|| Front Page Top

#2 US made arms are available on the open market so this is worthless. The US is an ally of Georgia so this is worse than obvious. But the really funny thing is...

764 pieces of M-16 automatic weapon
754 Kalashnikov automatic weapons.

The Kalishnikov is Russian or Chinese made. So just under half the captured weapons were Russian. Yeah it's probably old stuff but it's funny.

I'm also curious what "764 pieces of M-16 automatic weapon" means. Did they take a couple M-16s apart and count the pieces? Probably a translation issue but what a weird sentence.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-08-15 13:09|| 2008-08-15 13:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Wonder if they mean M240?

Posted by Mullah Richard 2008-08-15 13:27|| 2008-08-15 13:27|| Front Page Top

#4 FN MAG 58? Same thing? I think so, but am having it checked. M240 is US designation for the 58.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2008-08-15 16:15|| 2008-08-15 16:15|| Front Page Top

#5 What about the UFOs? Enquirying minds need to know about the alien technology that Georgia had?

Posted by 3dc 2008-08-15 17:09|| 2008-08-15 17:09|| Front Page Top

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